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If the Ivorian’s Stamford Bridge exit was supposed to release the shackles on £50million forward Fernando Torres, then it has backfired badly.

Torres was at his exasperating worst at Swansea as Chelsea lost top spot. The Spaniard was marked out of the game by City’s Gary Monk, who joined the Swans on a free transfer in League Two in 2004. By the end of the match, even Monk admitted Torres is “overpriced”.

Isolated, alone upfront, Torres had an early header cleared off the line. ­But youngster Victor Moses headed the Blues in front with his first league goal for the club on his maiden Premier League start for them.

But Swansea deservedly grabbed a point late on through Pablo Hernandez’s fine strike.

It means Torres has only four league goals this term and just 11 in total from 56 top-flight games following his move from Liverpool in January 2011.

Monk, who helped Swansea beat Liverpool last week in the Capital One Cup, believes the Reds did good business shifting Torres and bringing in Luis Suarez after facing both strikers.

The defender, 33, said: “I came here on a free when we were in League Two and he’s cost £50m! I didn’t give him a yard. Just kept with him – we all did.

“There are hundreds of players ­overpriced. It’s not his fault that Chelsea paid that sort of money for him.

“But with the price tag comes a lot of ­responsibility. He will feel that on his shoulders to perform every week. Once you don’t perform, everyone is on your back.

“Clearly Torres has quality though. You could see that with Suarez at Liverpool too, he’s a good player. He is Marmite to a lot of people but out of everyone he is the best. He’s the best this season I have seen by miles.”

Tremmel had to deny Eden Hazard twice before Moses opened the scoring with a 61st-minute header. But the Londoners tried to sit on their 1-0 lead as the hosts fought back for a ­well-deserved point as Hernandez struck two minutes from time.

He said: “Torres was a bit on his own but I think that was their tactic. I was a bit surprised I didn’t have more to do. They didn’t run too much, they just have good organisation and waited for their moment to score.

“In the second half, after they scored, they stopped playing forward. I think we deserved the points more than them.”